Weather Terms

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Across
  1. 3. A sudden short increase in wind speed.
  2. 5. Instrument designed to measure the speed of wind
  3. 7. A measure of the water vapor content of the air.
  4. 9. All the various visible electrical discharges produced by thunderstorms.
  5. 10. A cloud layer that covers most or all of the sky.
  6. 13. A cloud where the base of the cloud touches the earth's surface.
  7. 15. Absence of apparent motion of the air.
  8. 16. The chance that a prescribed event will occur.
Down
  1. 1. Any of all the forms of water particles, liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere and reach the ground.
  2. 2. A period of no moisture, large in space and time.
  3. 4. A strong wind characterized by sudden onset, of longer duration than gusts, and a rather sudden decrease in speed.
  4. 6. The study of the phenomena of the atmosphere.
  5. 8. The degree of hotness or coldness measured by a thermometer.
  6. 11. The visible collection of minute water droplets or ice particles in the atmosphere above earth's surface.
  7. 12. A violently rotating column of air that looks like a funnel cloud.
  8. 14. A principal cloud type in the form of individual detached elements, sharp non-fibrous outlines, and vertical development.